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Re: free buffer waits

From: George Schlossnagle <george_at_omniti.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:08:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00423921.20020308120836@fatcity.com>


Sounds like the write latency on your storage is high or you have an abusive. 'free buffer waits' is the db writer failing to flush it's cache fast enough to disk.

George

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Manytrees wrote:

> Hello all,
>  
> Does anybody know what parameters I should be tuning/change to try &
> reduce the number of busy buffer waits.  I have a system which at times
> has over 15+session waiting on "free buffer waits".
>  
> The explanation that I have been able to find so far is that session
> are waiting on buffer to free up :)
>  
> Have a good night all,
>  
> Joel.
>

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